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After 27 years of civil conflict, Angola achieved peace in 2002 and only then has the country begun to address such long-term issues as adaptation to climate variability and its socioeconomic effects. Given the short length of the period in which significant meteorological and hydrological records were collected is short: 1940 to 1975 for meteorological records and 1960 to 1975 for hydrological...

An atlas and profile of Huambo, it's environment and people

Date:
Saturday, 1 June, 2013

An atlas and profile of Huambo, it's environment and people, written by John Mendelsohn and Beat Weber, was published in 2013 by Development Workshop (in Portuguese and English), with special credit for financial support to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the International Development Research Centre’s (IDRC) programme for Urban Poverty & Environment.
This book offers...

The overall objective of the proposed project is to strengthen Angola’s efforts in climate change adaptation by developing tools and providing information that address information gaps about rainfall patterns and hydrology and their likely impact on environmental risks and water-supply issues in Angola’s coastal urban areas.

Counting rooftops - IDRC Bulletin - April 2013

Date:
Thursday, 4 April, 2013

A longstanding IDRC grantee combines satellite observations with old-fashioned grassroots data gathering to measure the impact of Angola's rapidly growing slums on the environment. Since 2002, when decades of civil conflict ended, Angola has struggled to rebuild. Its planners are hampered, however, by a shortage of reliable data about their own country’s population and environment. During the...

Climate Change, Flooding and Water Supply in Angola's Coastal Cities

Date:
Monday, 12 November, 2012

Angola has begun to address some of the serious issues related to adaptation to climate change. Angola’s water resources will be increasingly important in the southern Africa region, which is likely to become drier. Angola completed its initial national communication to UNFCCC in early 2012. Angola has joined regional and Portuguese-speaking networks and is beginning a GEF-funded programme. The...

The Cuvelai Basin, it's water and it's people in Angola and Namibia

Date:
Saturday, 1 January, 2011

The Cuvelai Basin, it's water and it's people in Angola and Namibia, written by John Mendelsohn and Beat Weber, was published in 2011 by Development Workshop (in Portuguese and English), with special recognition to BP Angola and Google Earth. The Cuvelai Basin is perhaps unique in the world as a drainage system that consists of hundreds of channels that join and separate thousands of times....

Development Workshop with support from the International Development
Resaerch Centre (IDRC) carried out the Poverty and Environmental
Vulnerability in Angola’s Growing Slums research project from 2009 to
2012 in three urban areas of Angola, namely Luanda (the capital city of
Angola), Huambo (the capital of Huambo Province), and Catchiungo (the
main town in the District of Catchiungo in Huambo...

Urban Environmental Risk Assessment, IDRC, 1998 - 2000

The objective is to develop Angolan planning for national reconstruction through improved capacity for data collection and assembly, use of GIS and monitoring of key indicators; and development of environmental health assessment tools. Presented To: International Development Research Centre (IDRC). DW proposes a two phase project on environmental risk assessment. The first, for which IDRC...